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From 1920 to 1930, the African American population exploded in Chicago, increasing from 109,458 to 233,903 residents in just a decade. The Great Migration of people was accompanied by a musical ...
“African Americans were literally running for their lives,” Gadsden said. “What makes The Great Migration so important in the larger history of African Americans and the United States in ...
There's a Great Digital Migration happening on the ... Ashon Crawley, a professor of religious studies and African American ...
when Homo sapiens left their African homeland to colonize the world. This great migration brought our species to a position of world dominance that it has never relinquished and signaled the ...
I addressed the familiar themes of the origins of that great document ... After each migration, the newcomers created new understandings of the African-American experience and new definitions ...
Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million ... into one particular beginning and endpoint of Black American migration: the Gulf South and Chicagoland. Simultaneously, the ...